The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 [Repost]

The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 by Mia Bay


English | Feb. 10, 2000 | ISBN: 0195132793 | 296 Pages | PDF | 2.37 MB

How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America"s shifting attitudes about race in a period that saw slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and urban migration. Much has been written about how the whites of this time viewed blacks, and about how blacks viewed themselves. By contrast, the ways in which blacks saw whites have remained a historical and intellectual mystery. Reversing the focus of such fundamental studies as George Fredrickson"s The Black Image in the White Mind , Bay investigates this mystery. In doing so, she uncovers and elucidates the racial thought of a wide range of nineteenth-century African-Americans–educated and unlettered, male and female, free and enslaved.

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Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results (repost)

Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother


English | 2009 | ISBN: 0071635238 | 306 pages | PDF | 5,1 MB

This game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker"s management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower.




Drawing on six years of research into Toyota"s employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company"s organizational routines–called kata–that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as:




# How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization?


# How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance?


# How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers?




Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata–a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting.




With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.




"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way."


–James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute

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Horticulture: Plants for People and Places, Volume 1 [Repost]

Horticulture: Plants for People and Places, Volume 1: Production Horticulture by Geoffrey R. Dixon


English | 1 July 2014 | ISBN: 9401785775 | 606 Pages | PDF | 15 MB

This Trilogy explains "What is Horticulture?". Volume one of Horticulture: Plants for People and Places describes in considerable depth the science, management and technology which underpins the continuous production of fresh and processed horticultural produce.

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Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy (Repost)

Douglas Smith, "Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy"


2012 | ISBN-10: 0374157618 | ASIN: B009IRAU9M | EPUB, MOBI | 496 pages | 6 MB

Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin’s Russia. Filled with chilling tales of looted palaces and burning estates, of desperate flights in the night from marauding peasants and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution, it is the story of how a centuries’-old elite, famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, and its promotion of the arts and culture, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia.




Yet Former People is also a story of survival and accommodation, of how many of the tsarist ruling class—so-called “former people” and “class enemies”—overcame the psychological wounds inflicted by the loss of their world and decades of repression as they struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile order of the Soviet Union. Chronicling the fate of two great aristocratic families—the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns—it reveals how even in the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on.




Told with sensitivity and nuance by acclaimed historian Douglas Smith, Former People is the dramatic portrait of two of Russia’s most powerful aristocratic families, and a sweeping account of their homeland in violent transition.

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Handbook of Oncology Social Work: Psychosocial Care for People with Cancer (repost)

Handbook of Oncology Social Work: Psychosocial Care for People with Cancer by Grace Christ and Carolyn Messner


English | 2015 | ISBN: 0199941920 | 872 pages | PDF | 27 MB

The development of this inaugural Handbook of Oncology Social Work: Psychosocial Care for People With Cancer provides a repository of the scope of oncology social workers" clinical practice, education, research, policy and program leadership in the psychosocial care of people with cancer and their families. It focuses on the unique synergy of social work perspectives, values, knowledge, and skills with the psychosocial needs of cancer patients, their families, and the health care systems in which they are treated. It addresses both the science and art of psychosocial care and identifies the increasing specialization of oncology social work related to its unique knowledge base, skills, role, and the progressive complexity of psychosocial challenges for patients with cancer.




This Handbook equips the reader with all that we know today in oncology social work about patient and family centered care, distress screening, genetics, survivorship, care coordination, sociocultural and economic diversity, legal and ethical matters, clinical work with adults living with cancer, cancer across the lifespan, their caregivers and families, pediatrics, loss and grief, professional career development, leadership, and innovation. Our hope is that in reading this Handbook you will identify new areas where each of you can leave your mark as innovators and change agents in our evolving field of practice.

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